'Front row - left to right: Bessie Weller, Violet Mae Creamer, Louise Smith, Betty Horner, Jean Cavalier, Mary Paxton Jones, Helen Moller, Lola Mae Van Meter. Second row - left to right: John Hendricks, Mary Alice Fraley, Jane Bartles, Annis Mason, Mary J. Frances, Osbourn, June Richardson, Ruth Blackford, William B. Snyder, Jr. Last Row - left to right: Harry L. Snyder III, George Mason, Robert Knott, Paul McCarty, John Van Tol.'
'Oldest town in West Virginia. Early settlers, 1707-1732, crossed Pack Horse Ford two miles east. Founded by Thomas Shepherd in 1762. Here lived James Rumsey, inventor of steamboat. First company of Southern soldiers to join Washington at Boston met at spring South of town. Shepherd College founded 1872.'